College and Research Libraries


analyses should precede any further support 
in this field, and (b) that there is great need 
to develop the science upon which a sound 
technology may be based.-Ralph R. Shaw, 
Rutgers University. 

Serials in Australian Libraries; Social 
Sciences and Humanities; A Union 
List. 2 vols. Canberra: National Library 
of Australia, 1963. Price to be deter-
mined. 

The publication of these two volumes 
marks another step forward in the efforts 
of Australian libraries to compile informa-
tion on their resources. This "interim edi-
tion" is designed to be a companion to Sci-
entific Serials in Australian Libraries, as it 
might well be after it is used and continued 
as a list of holdings of several hundred li-
braries in the country. The list includes peri-
odicals an~ other serials, as well as mono-

Americans in Africa: A Preliminary Guide 
to American Missionary Archives and Li-
brary Manuscript Collections on Africa. 
By Robert Collins and Peter Duignan. 
(Hoover Institution Bibliographical Se-
ries, no. 12.) Stanford, Calif.: The Hoover 
Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, 
1963. 96p. $2. 

Catalogo Colective de Publicaciones Periodi-
cas Existentes en Bibliotecas Cientificas y 
Tecnicas Argentinas. By Ernesto Gustavo 
Gietz. Buenos Aires: Scientific and Tech-
nical Libraries of Argentina, 1962. 1,726p. 

The Catholic Church in America: An His-
torical Bibliography. By Edward R. Voll-
mar. New York: Scarecrow Press. 339p. 
$8.50. 

A Checklist of Serials for African Studies. 
By Peter Duignan and Kenneth M. Glaz-
ier. (Hoover Institution Bibliographical 
Series, no. 13.) Stanford, Calif.: The 
Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, 
and Peace, 1963. 104p. $3. 

The Chinese Communist Movement, 1937-
1949: An Annotated Bibliography. By 
Chun-tu Hsueh. (Hoover Institute Biblio-
graphical Series, no. 11.) Stanford, Calif.: 

JANUARY 1964 

graphic and some publishers' series, but it 
does not contain newspapers, company re-
ports, house organs, and certain ephemeral 
titles. Almost twenty thousand titles are 
included. 

Australian librarians, through AACOBS 
(the Australian Advisory Council on Biblio-
graphical Services), the National Library of 
Australia, and the work of personnel in indi-
vidual libraries, have been pooling their ef-
forts to gain an insight into present holdings. 
The objective is to develop, so far as is fea-
sible, within programs of individual institu-
tions a program of collecting that will be 
beneficial to the country as a whole. Aus-
tralian libraries, because of their distance 
from one another, have an opportunity that 
is both unique and challenging, particularly 
in a country in which the social sciences and 
humanities, as well as science and technol-
ogy, are regarded as important.-Maurice 
F. Tauber, Columbia University. • • 

Books Briefly Noted 
The Hoover Institution on War, Revolu-
tion, and Peace, 1962. 312p. $5. 

Correlation Index to Current Department of 
Defense Research Reports. Cambridge, 
Mass.: M. I. T. Libraries, 1963. $10. 

Educational Media in Libraries. Edited by 
Carl H. Melinat. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syra-
cuse University School of Library Sci-
ence, 1963. 39p. $1.50. 

General Encyclopedias in Print: A Compar-
ative Analysis 1963, Second revised ed. 
Compiled by Padraig S. Walsh. Akron, 
Ohio: Reference Books Research Service, 
1963. 66p. $1.50. 

Guide to Research Facilities in History in 
The Universities of Great Britain and Ire-
land. By G. Kitson Clark and G. R. 
Elton. New York: Cambridge University 
Press, 1963. 44p. $1. 

A History of Graphic Art. By James Cleav-
er. New York: Philosophical Library, 
1963. 282p. illus. $12. 

Library Careers. By Richard H. and 
K. Irene Logsdon. New York: Henry Z. 
Walck, Inc., 1963. lllp. $3.50. 

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